Every state but Hawaii, California and Florida is likely to get a taste of wind chills of 20 degrees or colder.

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species – according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

How is climate change affecting polar regions? Climate change is amplified in the polar regions. The northern and southern reaches of the planet are warming faster than any area on Earth, with the ...

Scientists have quantified how much climate change has driven the population decline of polar bears living in Canada's Hudson ...

(The answer was Alabama, by the way.) Every year in January, Flora-Bama’s Polar Bear Dip draws thousands of patrons who take the plunge into the cold waters of the Gulf. During the 2025 event ...

Editor's Note: National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear in the opening caption of our December 2017 video ...

the stratospheric polar vortex and mid-latitude winter weather would improve our ability to anticipate these events and their severity. Mathew Barlow is a professor of climate science, UMass Lowell.

Today, due to the rapidly melting ice sheets of the Arctic Ocean, Greenland and Antarctica, polar exploration can reveal the immediacy of the world's climate change crisis. Without a significant ...

This prolonged fasting drains polar bears’ energy reserves, reducing their ability to reproduce and raise cubs. Without ...

University of Toronto Scarborough researchers have directly linked population decline in polar bears living in Western Hudson Bay to shrinking sea ice caused by climate change.